“Syme was not only dead, he was abolished, an unperson.”

You’re never going to believe this, but…

I’ve largely refrained from writing about health care, because there are probably people who have forgotten more about health care than I currently know. Ezra Klein might be one of them (despite his being almost exactly my age). And in a post today he shows some valuable data illustrating why older people are more opposed to health care reform.

First, older people are generally more opposed to Obama anyway.

2008 election results:

And second, check out who actually needs health care the most:

The youngest people tend to be covered by their parents’ plans, and even more old people are covered due to Medicare (which covers anyone over 65… note the sharp dropoff there). Of course, many of these older voters are resistant to change because they are quite happy with their coverage. And some of them are probably hearing the warnings about a “government takeover” of health care. But when you consider who runs Medicare, I guess that counts as irony.